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The Dollar Sign: Origins, Theories, and Global Notation

Author
Mike Breault
Published
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Episode Link
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A concise tour of how a two-stroke symbol moved from peso ledgers to the US dollar and onto currencies named dollar or peso. We weigh the main origin theories, peek at printing-era experiments, and explore the cifrão’s unique role as decimal separator in Portuguese-speaking worlds. A quick dive into history, tradition, and the digital age.


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